Memorandum-book.



A. MIEDEN. MEMORANDUM BOOK.

Patented May 12, 1914.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADAM MIEDEN, OF SPARKS, NEVADA.

MEMORANDUM-BOOK 'To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ADAM MIZEDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sparks, in the county of VVashoe and State of Nevada, have invented a new and useful Memorandum-Book, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in memorandum books, and its object is to provide a memorandum book in which fillers may be applied or removed at will, and wherein the fillers will be securely held and the fastening devices for the fillers may be readily renewed when broken from frequent manipulation.

In accordance with the present invention there is provided a cover member with a fastening device which may be in the form of a strip or wire of readily bendable character so arranged that the free ends of the wire may traverse and be bent into clamping relation to the filler without interference with the ready opening and closing of the cover member. The fastening device in the form of a strip or wire is held to the cover member in a manner permitting its ready insertion or withdrawal whenever desired, so that should it become broken, as may occur from frequent bending, another strip or wire may be readily inserted, wherefore it is quite feasible to make the cover member of relatively expensive material if such be desirable without having to discard such cover member should the fastening devices break.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, with the further understanding that while the drawings show a practical form of the invention, the latter is not confined to any strict conformity with the showing of the drawings, but may be changed and modified so long as such changes and modifications mark no material departure from the salient features of the invention.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is an inside face view of a cover member spread open and ready to receive a filler. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section showing a filler in place. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary cross section showing the cover member and filler spread open to illustrate the pocket or receptacle for the binding member. Fig. 4: is a rear view of a Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 30, 1913.

Patented May 12, 1914.

Serial No. 776,639.

portion of a cover member with the outside part omitted and disclosing a different form of the invention from the preceding figures. F1g. 5 is a fragmentary section on the line 55 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a view of a different type of the invention from the showing of the other figures.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown a cover 1 which may be shaped in a manner common in memorandum books, although not at all necessary of the particular shape shown. This cover member is indicated as provided with the usual intermediate fold 2. Applied to the inner face of the cover memher is a sheet 3 which may be coextensive with the cover member or may include any desirable fractional portion thereof and along the line of the fold 2 this sheet has 0ppo-sitely disposed, elongated, open-ended slots 4, that is, each slot is open at one end, and these slots are in alinement one with the other and extend into the sheet 3 from opposite edges thereof.

The cover 1 and sheet 3 may be secured together as by pasting or otherwise over substantially the whole surface where they ,meet, except that along the fold 2 the sheet 3 is unattached to the cover member. This provides a passageway 5 between the cover member 1 and sheet 3 coincident with the fold 2, which passageway is adapted to receive a wire 6, constituting a fastening device for a filler 7. The wire 6 may be taken as indicative of any suitable strip of ma-. terial sufliciently ductile to readily bend, and the term wire is to be understood throughout this specification as meaning any suitable elongated member answering the purposes of the invention. The wire 6 is made longer than the distance between the adjacent ends of the slots 1, so that the extremities of the wire may be bent to project from the face of the sheet 3 substantially perpendicular thereto, and by suitably perforating the filler 7 the extremities of the wire 6 may be passed through such perforations and then bent down against the filler along the line of the fold to hold the filler firmly in place and as securely as the stitching ordinarily used for the purpose- For ordinary memorandum books the notches or recesses 9 at the ends matching the recesses 4 of the sheet 3, this construction being shown in Figs. 4t and 5, and to hold such a metal strip in place it is advisable to provide a binding sheet 10 of a character to be readily united to the sheet 3 by a suitable adhesive and extended in overlying relation to the strip 10 to anchor it in place. The bent-out extremities of the wire 6 will then pass through the recesses 9 in contact with metal or other hard substance, thus saving the sheet 3 from being torn or otherwise injured. The metal strip 8 may be of any desired width, thus spacing the back of the cover member in a manner to readily hold loose leaves or other like devices while the cover still tends to lie flat.

It is sometimes advisable that one leaf of the cover member be stid and rigid, such a stiif cover leaf being indicated at 11 in Fig. 6, while a more flexible cover leaf 12 forms the matching part of the cover. A sheet 13, which may be in one piece with the cover leaf 12 or may be separate therefrom but united thereto, serves to inclose the stiff cover leaf 11, and the latter is formed at opposite sides near one end with alined recesses 14 designed to receive a binder wire 6 similar to the arrangement shown in Fig. 1.

The structure shown in Fig. 6 is well adapted to loose leaves or drawings, or the like, and the sheet 13 may he applied to the stiff cover leaf 11 in such a manner as to leave a free space along the line of the recesses 1st for the insertion and removal of the wire 6. In any event the inturned ends of the wire 6 engaging in the inner ends of the recesses 4, or 9 or 14, as the case may be, firmly lock the wire in place. In Fig. 6 a series of loose leaves 15 is indicated, and these loose leaves may represent any sheets it is desired to secure in the structure.

hen the filler has been used up or when it is desired to remove loose leaves, then the bent-down ends of the wire 6 are lifted away from the filler, so that the latter or one or more loose leaves may be removed and in case of the removal. of an entire filler, another one may be applied and the wires again bent down into holding relation thereto. It sometimes happens that after this performance has occurred for a few times, the wire breaks or becomes so bent that it is desirable to apply a fresh wire. Under these circumstances the wire is bent out as nearly straight as may be and then withdrawn from between the sheet 3 or other like member and the cover member and a new wire is readily inserted, and when properly located its ends are bent so as to project inwardly with respect to the cover member at the inner ends of the recesses 4 or like recesses.

While the sheet 3 has been described as substantially coextensive with the cover member 1, it will be understood thatthis is not essential, for it is only necessary that it be secured for a sufficient distance in the cover member to form a pocket or receptacle for the wir and to prevent accidental separation of the wire from the cover member.

It is not necessary that the leaves 15 should be loose leaves, but they may be in the form of a tablet, or they may represent some devices which it is desired should be protected by a cover.

The holding devices may be applied about as cheaply as the usual attachments of memorandum leaves to the covers, so that the whole device may be manufactured and sold at about the same price as memorandum books as ordinarily manufactured, besides providing the advantage that additional fillers may be applied at any time.

While the device has been described more particularly with relation to a memorandum book, it is to be understood that it is use ful in connection with other binders, whether for memorandum sheets, pictures, samples of cloth or any other material.

What is claimed is l. A. device for the purpose described, comprising a cover member, another member attached thereto and having oppositely disposed alined open-ended slots, and a Wire lodged between the cover member and the second-named member and extending between the inner ends of the slots and having its extremities passed through the slots adjacent to the closed ends and projecting with relation to the secondnamed member.

2. A. device for the purpose described, comprising a cover member, another member attached thereto and having oppositely disposed alined open-ended slots, and a wire lodged between the cover member and the second-named member and extending between the inner ends of the slots and having its extremities passed through the slots adj acent to the closed ends and projecting with relation to the second-named member, said second-named member being provided with a reinforcing strip slotted at the ends in matching relation to the first-named slots and lodged between the second-named memher and the cover member.

A device for the purpose described, comprising a cover member, a sheet applied thereto and provided with oppositely disposed open-ended slots in alinement, the cover member and second-named member defining a space or channel between the closed ends of the slots, and a wire introducable into and removable from the channel and of a length to have its extremities bent to project through the second-named member at the closed ends of the slots.

4t. A device for the purpose described, comprising two joined members defining an elongated channel between them with one of the members slotted in line with the channel from opposite sides With the closed ends of In testimony that I claim the foregoing as the slots separated, and a length of wire my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature adapted to be introduced into and removed in the presence of two Witnesses.

from the channel and have the ends bent to ADAM MIEDEN. 5 project through the closed ends of the slots W'itnesses:

in a direction away from the slotted mem- FKANK J BYINGTON,

ber. G120. S. HALL.

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